Mbyrykioka
Old Tupi
Etymology
From mbyryki (“muriqui”) + oka (“house”).
Proper noun
Mbyrykioka
- The mouth of the Bertioga channel and its surroundings, next to the São João da Bertioga fort, in São Vicente captaincy, Brazil, where nowadays Bertioga city is located
Descendants
- → Brazilian Portuguese: Bertioga
References
- Hans Staden (1557) chapter XV, in Warhaftige Hiſtoria [True History], volume 1 (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page: “Brikioka [Mbyrykioka]”
- Fernão Cardim (1583–1590) untitled (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Adolfo de Varnhagen, editor, Narrativa epistolar de uma viagem e missão jesuitica, Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1847, page 98: “Buriquioca [Mbyrykioka]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “Bertioga”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 547, column 2